On Jan 3, 2008, at 20:19 , Don Stewart wrote:
> allbery:
>>>> On Jan 3, 2008, at 17:19 , Don Stewart wrote:
>>>>> well, a lot of other apps don't put stub config files in, vim/
>>> mutt/ion
>>> etc. they instead document what needs to be done.
>>>> As a counterexample, last I checked Pine did copy in a default
>> config.
>> So I'm open to the idea, but need a good story for how to
> avoid *requiring* ghc at runtime. At the moment, as soon as
> you create a config file, xmonad will try to compile it.
>> If you never customise xmonad, then that runtime dependency isn't
> required. But maybe that doesn't matter?
I am inclined to think that, unless we provide some common "canned"
configurations precompiled (e.g. ManageDocks + EwmhWindows for people
who want to use panels) or some way to build such configurations
without recompiling, users *will* do runtime configuration that
requires ghc.
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